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5.0 out of 5 stars
A welcome new training tool, July 14 2010
By Jim Bowden - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Essentials of Cave Diving (Paperback)
The Essentials of Cave Diving is a must for the student cave diver and a refreshing tool for those of us who teach the discipline. I am retired from teaching but wish that Jill's book had been available for my students when I was teaching. . It is an excellent tool and damn good fun for us old troglodytes. The generous use of photos and graphics make it both more readable and inspiring. While I do not teach anymore I still explore caves and enjoy keeping up with my colleagues around the world. I see that Jill included some of them in photos. What is important with this book is that it is written by an experienced, very capable cave diver/explorer who lives what she writes about.
Jim Bowden
Founder and leader
Proyecto de Buceo Espeleologico Mexico y America Central
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not Your Average Diving Guide, April 13 2010
By Robert Mcclellan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Essentials of Cave Diving (Paperback)
Filled with very useful and practical knowledge, this cave diving guidebook is also filled with Jill Heinerth's stunning underwater photographs. It is well designed, much more like a sophisticated magazine than a drab manual, and most techniques and procedures are illustrated with very high quality photos, filling a much-needed niche in the technical diving world. The author, acknowledged as one of the top cave divers in the world, has taken an extremely technical subject (cave diving) and presented it in a conversational, easy-to-understand format. Highly recommended for scuba divers at any level.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
An Insightful Book for Both Student and Full Cave Divers, July 28 2010
By P. Geho "HaloGod1961" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Essentials of Cave Diving (Paperback)
Ms. Heinerth is an incredible author who knows how to work just enough humor in this treatise to make the reading enjoyable and very informing. As a diver working towards his Full Cave Certification, I would heartily recommend this book to anyone even considering moving into this incredible an dangerous world of Cave Diving!